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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    MrTapir wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Any chance of Sagan getting over the 1st cat climb with or near enough the lead group on Stage 8?

    Well one of the liquigas team people thought this was a possibility and post-race the eurosport guys were discussing this possibility of Nibs the main GC but also Sagan for GC. I recall him having previous form in some sort of climbing territory but i may be wrong. It would certainly be interesting to see.

    Tour de Suisse in 2010 possibly? I can remember him climbing with the lead group on a few stages somewhere.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    He won the stage to Grindelwald in the TdS 2011 but that was due to his descent. He had been near the front over the top because of being in a breakaway.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Greipel supposedly with dislocated shoulder!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,431
    Pross wrote:
    MrTapir wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Any chance of Sagan getting over the 1st cat climb with or near enough the lead group on Stage 8?

    Well one of the liquigas team people thought this was a possibility and post-race the eurosport guys were discussing this possibility of Nibs the main GC but also Sagan for GC. I recall him having previous form in some sort of climbing territory but i may be wrong. It would certainly be interesting to see.

    Tour de Suisse in 2010 possibly? I can remember him climbing with the lead group on a few stages somewhere.

    Thinking more of a stage win than GC

    Not sure he'll be asked to expend too much energy helping Nibali. I reckon his objective for tomorrow is to converse as much energy as possible without getting eliminated. Maybe a bit of back to the team car to get bottles so everyone knows what great team player he is.
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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    knedlicky wrote:
    Greipel supposedly with dislocated shoulder!
    Surely not :shock:
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    knedlicky wrote:
    Greipel supposedly with dislocated shoulder!
    Surely not :shock:
    It's what team mate Sieberg said after the race, but I suppose he's not a doctor.
  • cycling5280
    cycling5280 Posts: 279
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Any chance of Sagan getting over the 1st cat climb with or near enough the lead group on Stage 8?

    Not a chance f the GC guys try to make a selection.
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Sagan is insane. He can climb stupidly well, is almost unbeatable on rolling stages and now he's beating sprinters on flat stages. WTF?! :shock:

    I hope he's for real.

    Why did Cavendish finish so far back?
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Cav's just posted the following on Twitter:

    Lucky to just miss 2 flying bikes in todays massive crash, but punctured just to be part of the chaos. @richie_porte came down but he's ok.
  • gattocattivo
    gattocattivo Posts: 500
    Crash caused by a rider trying to take off a shoe cover (according to twitter)
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    I think it's safe to say that this Tour is not going the way I expected. A crazy first week.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Real shame about Hesjedal. He looked very capable of a top 5 finish.

    It was a bit confusing that Garmin didn't commit any of its riders to wait for him to help pace him back.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Biggest crash in a Grand Tour i have seen recently was in the Vuelta 2009

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMyoeFzmQww
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    donrhummy wrote:
    Real shame about Hesjedal. He looked very capable of a top 5 finish.

    It was a bit confusing that Garmin didn't commit any of its riders to wait for him to help pace him back.

    He finished in the same group as 5 other Garmin riders.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    donrhummy wrote:
    Real shame about Hesjedal. He looked very capable of a top 5 finish.

    It was a bit confusing that Garmin didn't commit any of its riders to wait for him to help pace him back.
    I think the only Garmin riders that didn't finish with Hesjedal were Danielson, Zabriskie (both for obvious reasons) and Van Summeren who finished a further three minutes back.

    A pretty disastrous day for Garmin really. Zabriskie is now their leading rider on GC over 14 minutes down on Cancellera.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    June the 9th
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Nibali
    Wiggins
    Coppel

    This is taking into account the huge crash on stage 5 and an unexpected crosswind split into Cap d Agde

    one stage out :)
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Here is the crash aftermath:
    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... /1.1358222
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  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    Pross wrote:
    Ah, right. Thanks - seems a strange way to do it though, why not just add the top 3 on GC together?

    'cos that would be crap, the idea is that the best _team_ wins, not the best 3 riders on the same team, the idea is that it doesn't matter which of your guys finish in the top 3 you get to win the competition, so you can attack with different guys each day to try and win it. Leads to more aggressive racing.
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  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Cav's just posted the following on Twitter:

    Lucky to just miss 2 flying bikes in todays massive crash, but punctured just to be part of the chaos. @richie_porte came down but he's ok.

    Yes he was caught up in the crash and then at first he was chasing with EBH apparently but must have realised he wouldn't have made the front group and just eased off and came in without expending much energy
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    @millarmind Somebody partaking in the Tour de France knows they caused that crash. Whoever you are: THAT WAS NOT COOL.

    Schleck: “The time loss is what it is. I wasn’t one of the top favorites for the overall, but this is, of course, untimely. I mean, I have been feeling good since the start in Liège. We have had an amazing time with Fabian in yellow and I was feeling confident about what is to come. Now that I’ve lost this amount of time, it changes things. We'll see with the team if we change my strategy. This is cycling: there are good times and bad times.”

    Schelck added: “A bunch of riders were going maybe 70kph and there was a crash on a big road – when it’s that speed you can’t really avoid it. I don’t think I have anything broken. Just some pain in my shoulder, some pain in my hip and we’ll check my knee. So we’ll see. If there is nothing broken I will be there tomorrow.”

    Cancellara was almost caught up in the final crash, too, seeing if unfold right beside him: “From the beginning there were crashes today after only 25km. In the middle there was a crash, then toward the end there was the crash right next to me. I was happy that at 70kph I could stay on the bike. We had to take a look around to see which teammates were still in the group and we saw that Fränk was not with us. It was already too late, the race was going away. We have Andreas up there so now he’s the leader of the team. We found out Fränk’s group was more than two minutes behind and there was nothing we could do. Now our plan will change on how to use Fränk on a team that still has big ambitions for the Tour de France.

    @hornerakg Rough day out there today. Had a body on my back wheel at 70 kph. Stayed upright, barely
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    frenchfighter wrote:
    le-tour-france-2012-stage-20120706-095726-465.jpg

    Here is the crash aftermath:
    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... /1.1358222

    Told ya he'd do well to not be in a crash long before the Tour.

    Appalling day for the Dutch. Poels out and all their GC contenders lost time.

    Jonny was behind the crash and had to brake so hard to avoid (which he did) his tyre burst .
    _
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    And the photo that was removed from millars twitter :shock:

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    This sport is something else...
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  • Rundfahrt
    Rundfahrt Posts: 551
    Looks like a 53 to me!
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Wynants 2 broken ribs and perforated lung.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    iainf72 wrote:
    Wynants 2 broken ribs and perforated lung.

    Almost the same for Oscar Freire (just one rib for him)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    frenchfighter wrote:
    And the photo that was removed from millars twitter :shock:

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    This sport is something else...
    Brutal!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited July 2012
    "Another win and I called this one ‘The Hulk'," said Peter Sagan. "I want the green jersey and I think I can hold on to it all the way to Paris."

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    "I crashed at 35km and then again at the mountain ranking," Greipel told Radsport-News.com. "I didn't want to sprint, but my teammates talked me into it. It was unbelievably painful."

    Then he goes on to contest the sprint at the end and places 2nd. Heavyweight.

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    Cannot remember the last time I saw as much carnage. I feel for these guys.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited July 2012
    Danielson:
    http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/10929/Wielrennen ... Metz.dhtml

    Oh and now I read on CN that the commies have hit
    Gesink and Kruijswijk with a 20 sec time penalty for drafting.
    Nice touch of sympathy, that. :roll:
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  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    frenchfighter wrote:
    "Another win and I called this one ‘The Hulk'," said Peter Sagan. "I want the green jersey and I think I can hold on to it all the way to Paris."

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    "I crashed at 35km and then again at the mountain ranking," Greipel told Radsport-News.com. "I didn't want to sprint, but my teammates talked me into it. It was unbelievably painful."

    Then he goes on to contest the sprint at the end and places 2nd. Heavyweight.

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    What a mess, as afx said, really looks like he's been attacked by a lion!

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